Captian's Log Drabble Series: Driftwood 31 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 The sea is cold; the sun is hot. Men's lives are short compared to these eternal things, but one life, though brief, or one man, though so much smaller than…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: Driftwood 30 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 Delirious, rocked by the ocean, he lies in an officer's bed, quite senseless of the hands which replace upon his brow a cold rag. At times he moans, and she…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: Driftwood 29 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 My bleeding lips crack under the burning sun. The sweet taste of my own blood is all I have to drink—there is no water but that deadly brine the ocean…
Captian's Log Drabble Series: Driftwood 28 Jul 2020 Safe from the murderous sea, I watch as bits of broken timber are thrown up by the tide onto land. I am this dead wood's elder brother, for so I…
Captian's Log Short Story: The Song of the Sea 11 Jul 2020 My feet sinking into the forgiving sands of a cold, pacific beach, I pause, setting my eyes upon the vast horizon. Like turrets of a mighty castle, the distant clouds…
Captian's Log Strange Story 18 Jun 2020 There’s a strange story they’ve been telling . . . say there’s a ship in port . . . looking for men. Oh, that’s not the strange thing, no. No,…
Captian's Log Short Poem: And the World Turns 5 Jun 2020 The black heaven of night arrayed in starry light is stretched over the land by a subtle hand. Dark waves now hit the shore in their eternal war against the…
Captian's Log Plutonian Shore 18 May 2020 (A few characters I've been playing around with inside my head. Please enjoy.) It was the blood which woke him. In his dreams, the pouring, dripping noise of the sheep’s…
Captian's Log Poem: Serpent’s Hour 28 Apr 2020 Oh that serpent’s long, and coiled form, which there I spy in yonder storm, twisting in its damn-ed sleep now rising from the deep —soon to rest again— will pass…
Captian's Log The Black Stars 14 Apr 2020 So, I was cleaning up some of my papers and I found this old doodle (written on the back of a test, no less). It reads: The Black Stars Shadow…
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